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He was one of the most distinctive voices on Irish radio since the ‘70s, with RTÉ 2fm and, for the past decade and more, Today FM. Latterly, the man his fans knew as Tony Fenton fought a brave battle against cancer, but in the end the disease proved impossible to beat...